The following is a comprehensive ist of leaders of Azerbaijan's state security agencies since the republic's establishment in 1918.
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Heads of the Organization to struggle against counterrevolution of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic # Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation 1Mamedbaghir Sheikhzamanly June — August 1919Musavat 2Naghi Sheikhzamanly August 1919 — March 1920Musavat
Azerbaijan SSR
Heads of the Azerbaijani Cheka, GPU and OGPU
# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliationChairmen of Azerbaijani Extraordinary Commission (Azerbaijani Cheka) 1 Semen Pankratov May — June 1920Communist Party 2 Baba Aliyev June — October 1920Communist Party 3 Eyyub Hanbudagov October 1920 — February 1921Communist Party 4 Mir Jafar Baghirov February 10, 1920 — 1923Communist PartyChairmen of the GPU of the Azerbaijan SSR 1 Mir Jafar Baghirov 1923 — September 7, 1926Communist PartyChairmen of the OGPU of the Azerbaijan SSR 1 Mir Jafar Baghirov September 7, 1926 — May 22, 1927Communist Party 2 Novruz Rizayev May 22, 1927 — 1929Communist Party 3 Mir Jafar Baghirov September 7, 1929 — August 6, 1930Communist Party 4 Mikhail Frinovsky 1930 — April 1933Communist Party 5 Aleksey Agrba April 19, 1933 — March 31, 1934AUCP(b) 6 Yuvelian Sumbatov-Topuridze February 26, 1934 — July 10, 1934Communist Party
Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan) - People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR
# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation 1Hamid SultanovApril 28, 1920 - June 1, 1921Russian Social Democratic Labour Party 2Mir Jafar BaghirovOctober 5, 1921 - May 22, 1927Communist Party 3Novruz RizayevMay 22, 1927 - Jule 10, 1929Communist Party Stepan YemelianovAugust 1, 1929 - ?Communist Party Yuvelyan Sumbatov-TopuridzeJanuary 1, 1937 - January 10, 1938 Communist Party Mikhail RayevJanuary 10, 1938 - November 12, 1938Communist Party Stepan YemelianovFebruary 11, 1939 - February 26, 1941 Communist Party Mir Teymur YagubovMarch 6, 1941 - June 1, 1943Communist Party Aghaselim AtakishiyevJuly 10, 1943 - June 6, 1953Communist Party
People's Commissar and Ministers of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR (List incomplete)
# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliationPeople's Commissar of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR 1Stepan Yemelianov February 26 — July 31, 1941Communist Party Stepan Yemelianov May 7, 1943 — January 1947Communist PartyMinisters of State Security of the Azerbaijan SSR 1Stepan Yemelianov January 1947 — March 16, 1953Communist Party
Minister of Internal Affairs (Azerbaijan) - Ministers of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR
# Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation 1Stepan YemelianovMarch 16, 1953 - July 29, 1953Communist Party 2Anatoliy GuskovAugust 8, 1953 - March 25, 1954Communist Party
In 1953, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR and the Ministry of Public Security of the Azerbaijan SSR were merged into a single Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1954 was founded the KGB of Azerbaijan SSR.
Chairmen of the KGB of Azerbaijan SSR # Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation 1 Anatoliy Guskov 1954 — 1956Communist Party 2 Fyodor Kopilov September 26, 1956 — August 1959Communist Party 3 Alexander Kardashov August 1959 — October 12, 1963Communist Party 4 Semen Svigun October 21, 1963 — 1967Communist Party 5 Heydar Aliyev June 21, 1967 — July 14, 1969Communist Party 6 Vitaliy Krasilnikov June 1969 — June 18, 1980Communist Party 7 Ziya Yusifzadeh 1980 — 1988Communist Party 8 Ivan Gorelovsky August 11, 1988 — August 19, 1989Communist Party 9 Vagif Huseynov August 19, 1989 — September 13, 1991Communist Party 10 Ilhuseyn Huseynov September 1991 — May 1992Communist Party
Ministers of National Security of Azerbaijan # Name Photo Term in office Party affiliation 1Fakhraddin Tahmazov May 16, 1992 — 1993 2 Nariman Imranov 1993 — October 15, 1994 Acting Namig Abbasov October 1994 — March 1995 3 Namig Abbasov March 1995 — July 2004 3 Eldar Mahmudov since July 23, 2004
References
External links HEADS OF SPECIAL SERVICES OF AZERBAIJAN Органы ВЧК-ГПУ-ОГПУ в Закавказье. (1918-1934 гг.)